Bob Hoffman: Missionary, Server Wrangler, and Reluctant Participant in the Collapse of Civilization Bob Hoffman is a veteran Independent Baptist missionary who looked at the Internet—an electronic wilderness populated by hackers, heretics, spambots, abandoned WordPress plugins, and people who still use “password123”—and declared, “This looks like a mission field.” Together […]
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The Internet has long provided missionaries and churches with opportunities to reach people who might never enter a church building. We are now exploring another way to extend that outreach: carefully designed artificial-intelligence chatbots placed on ministry websites. These chatbots allow visitors to ask questions in ordinary language and receive […]
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of meeting Pastor Jerry Terrell of Central Baptist Church in Athens, Texas. Brother Terrell was interested in learning more about our ministry and the website services we provide to Independent Baptist churches and ministries. Central Baptist Church had an expensive website […]